7:31 AM,
Nov. 17, 2013

Claire Fiddian-Green (left, with center attorney Michelle McKeown) is co-director of the center.

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It's a small state agency. Just a 15-person staff and with no power under Indiana statute.

But the new Center for Education and Career Innovation is helping to fuel a firestorm in the very public, very political battle between Gov. Mike Pence and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz over control of K-12 education policy in Indiana.

The new center, known as CECI, has a far-reaching mission that covers Indiana's entire education and workforce development pipeline. ...